September 6, 2007

U.S. Truckers’ Jobs on Chopping Blocks

By Frosty Wooldridge.

Via President Bush and Congress’ “Mexican Truck Pilot” program, American trucking will change: for the worse. Thousands of Mexican drivers—without formal driving standards, without drug testing and without legal passports to identify them to us—shortly will invade America’s freeways. They lack the ability to write and read in English, jeopardizing safety checks and logbook protocol. [...]